Juan Seguin

Juan Seguin (27 October 1806-27 August 1890) was a Senator of the Republic of Texas from the Bexar District from 1837 to 1840 and Mayor of San Antonio from 1834 to 1835 and from 1841 to 1842.

Biography
Juan Seguin was born on 27 October 1806 in San Antonio de Bexar, Texas, New Spain, the son of city postmaster Erasmo Seguin. Juan Seguin was elected an alderman of San Antonio in 1828, and he began to form liberal political views; he opposed Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's conservative government. During the Texas Revolution, Stephen F. Austin commissioned him a captain in the Texian Army and placed him in charge of supplying the Texian troops. Seguin was sent by William B. Travis, commander of the Alamo, to send for reinforcements from Sam Houston's army; Seguin therefore survived the Battle of the Alamo. In May 1836, after the revolution's end, he was promoted to Colonel, and he would become a senator of the Republic of Texas from the Bexar District (San Antonio). During the Mexican-American War, he was captured and forced to serve under Adrian Woll and Santa Anna against the US Army, but he returned to Texas in 1848. In 1883, he would settle in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas in northern Mexico, where he died in 1890 at the age of 83.